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Cnn A Conduit For Iranian Propaganda?

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CNN's Christiane Amanpour recently met with a "top government official" of Iran--identity, unfortunately, unknown--and reports that Iranian officials, at least those who don't dare divulge their identities, are hungry for good relations with the U.S.:

"Natural allies," this official said.

It was a surprising choice of words considering the barbs Washington and Tehran have been trading of late.

"We are not after conflict. We are not after crisis. We are not after war," said this official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "But we don't know whether the same is true in the U.S. or not. If the same is true on the U.S. side, the first step must be to end this vicious cycle that can lead to dangerous action -- war."

This anonymous, but presumably very powerful, Iranian assured Ms. Amanpour that the desire for peace with the U.S. goes to the very top of the Iranian hierarchy:

He confided that what he was telling me was not shared by all in the Iranian government, but it was endorsed so high up in the religious leadership that he felt confident spelling out the rationale.

"This view is not off the streets. It's not the reformist view and it's not even the view of the whole government," he replied.

But he insisted he was describing the thinking at the highest levels of the religious leadership -- the center of decision-making power in Iran.

I asked whether he meant Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself.

"Yes," he said.

Amanpour's breathless report implies that only the belligerence of the President Bush, who unaccountably included Iran in the "Axis of Evil," frustrates a full alliance between these nations, both of whom, she says, are bitterly opposed to al Qaeda.

Many others, of course, believe that top al Qaeda leaders are now inside Iran. And it is not hard to argue that from 1979 to the present, the foreign power that has most consistently been at war with the U.S. is Iran. Further, what are we to make of the claim that Ayatollah Khamenei considers his country to be a "natural ally" of the U.S.?

Not long ago, Khamanei was singing a distinctly different tune:

He has repeatedly denounced the idea of talks with the United States. During and after the US-led war on Iraq, he was sharply critical of Washington's policies.

When pro-reform students rioted in June 2003, Ayatollah Khamenei was quick to warn that such actions would not be tolerated. And he blamed the US for stirring up the trouble.

"Leaders do not have the right to have any pity whatsoever for the mercenaries of the enemy," he said in a broadcast speech.

Ayatollah Khamenei has consistently backed the supervisory role of the conservative Guardian Council.

Now who you gonna believe? The unimpeachable CNN star reporter or your own two eyes?! :o

The only undisputable truth I ever got from CNN was in an American bar. The TV is perpetually switched onto the CNN channel, which shows continuous live coverage of the goldfish swimming therein. :o

CNN did a good piece on muslims (both radical and non radical ) in the UK.

Still, she has got to be 10 times better than that one eyed prick Bill O'Reilly on Fox.

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CNN did a good piece on muslims (both radical and non radical ) in the UK.

Still, she has got to be 10 times better than that one eyed prick Bill O'Reilly on Fox.

Her phony, pretentious British accent makes me want to hurl... :o

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Just exactly what is a natural ally?

Do the mice and the rabbits get together to drive out the coyotes?

Lord Palmerston said it: no permanent friends, no permanent enemies just permanent interests.

CNN has always thought we were too stupid to see their agenda. :o

Most Iranian-persian I know off have no interest of War with the US...or even living in an oppressed society. But they are still going to die as collatoral damage when the bombs starts to drop.

And that is unfortuant since there are large groups (even domestic 'terrorist'-groups) activly trying to change Iran to a something different, away from the religious elit and their religious police (consisting mostly of low-class arabs).

Cnn A Conduit For Iranian Propaganda?

###### straight ..................... :D

now FOX , well there's a source . :o

Most Americans I know off have no interest of War with Iran..or even living in an oppressed society. But they are still going to die as collatoral damage when the bombs starts to drop.

And that is unfortuant since there are large groups (even domestic 'terrorist'-groups) activly trying to change the US into a something different, away from the religious elit and their religious police (consisting mostly of WASPs).

:o

CNN's Christiane Amanpour recently met with a "top government official" of Iran--identity, unfortunately, unknown--and reports that Iranian officials, at least those who don't dare divulge their identities, are hungry for good relations with the U.S.:

"Natural allies," this official said.

It was a surprising choice of words considering the barbs Washington and Tehran have been trading of late.

Hmmmm.... another post that was written by someone else:

National plagerism day is it?

http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/02/22/...natural-allies/

Carter dismantling our human intelligence capabilities set us back 35 years at least. We need to get back to spies, bribes and assassinations. MIB :D:o

CNN did a good piece on muslims (both radical and non radical ) in the UK.

Still, she has got to be 10 times better than that one eyed prick Bill O'Reilly on Fox.

Her phony, pretentious British accent makes me want to hurl... :o

Cut down on the haggis and French wine Boon, like Asians and Natives with alcohol, your genes won't allow their ingestion.

Shortly after her birth in London, her British mother Patricia, and her father Mohammed, an Iranian airline executive, moved the family to Tehran. The Amanpours led a privileged life under the regime of the Shah of Iran. At age 11, she returned to England to attend first the Holy Cross Convent School in Buckinghamshire, England, and then the New Hall School, an exclusive Roman Catholic girls' school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour

Most Americans I know off have no interest of War with Iran..or even living in an oppressed society. But they are still going to die as collatoral damage when the bombs starts to drop.

And that is unfortuant since there are large groups (even domestic 'terrorist'-groups) activly trying to change the US into a something different, away from the religious elit and their religious police (consisting mostly of WASPs).

:o

Please don't quote-edit my posts to start a flame-war - it had a point on its own.

Most Americans I know off have no interest of War with Iran..or even living in an oppressed society. But they are still going to die as collatoral damage when the bombs starts to drop.

And that is unfortuant since there are large groups (even domestic 'terrorist'-groups) activly trying to change the US into a something different, away from the religious elit and their religious police (consisting mostly of WASPs).

:o

Please don't quote-edit my posts to start a flame-war - it had a point on its own.

It fits quite well though doesn't it? My point is to show the hypocrisy in the rhetoric used by war mongers.

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National plagerism day is it?

This ain't some Journalism 101 class here...it's an internet forum with quoted links. You wanna impose 'anti-plagerism' rules - better start with those boys in the Thailand News threads............ :o

//edit/wrong thread/wash sleep out of eyes before using mouse.

There's a very clear distinction between quoting someone and stealing their writing and posting it as your own. Are you not capable of writing your own ideas or did you not think anyone would notice you were just stealing entire blog postings and columns from other people who are?

Did you link back or cite these authors as a reference (like what happens in the news clippings)? No, you pasted it in here as your own post. Adding a :o which was the only part of it that was actually yours. Have you ever credited any of those writers? No. That I'm afraid, is plagerism and fraud. You got caught red handed so don't go making any lame excuses. Your credibility is pretty much shot here.

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Your credibility is pretty much shot here.

And yours has been well and truly shot within the Thai-related forum community for quite a while now bud... :o

Your credibility is pretty much shot here.

And yours has been well and truly shot within the Thai-related forum community for quite a while now bud... :o

My God...... something original.

And inaccurate :D

(added the whistle for search, research and copy reasons only)

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Your credibility is pretty much shot here.

And yours has been well and truly shot within the Thai-related forum community for quite a while now bud... :o

My God...... something original.

And inaccurate :D

Well, head on over to that 'wooden door' place etc. and check out the reactions & responses to a certain ex-mod from TV, eh?

You might be surprised at what you see... :D

The rantings of a few misfits and a fraud/plagerist without the intellectual capacity to post his own work are hardly something I worry about. :o

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The rantings of a few misfits

I reckon it's more than a few! :D

Oh...btw, why do you assume it's you? :o

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